Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- Violence killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians in August, authorities said Wednesday, a day after President Barack Obama marked the end of the U.S. combat mission in the country.
The month's toll included 295 civilians killed and 508 wounded, the Ministry of Interior said.
Fifty-four Iraqi soldiers were killed and 150 more wounded in the same month.
In July, the number of people killed in the nation's violence was the highest since May 2008. Nearly 400 civilians were killed in that month.
The month of September started off with at least three attacks, authorities said.
In one, a police officer who works for the Interior Ministry was killed when a bomb attached to his civilian car exploded Wednesday morning in northwestern Baghdad.
In a separate attack in Tikrit on the same day, three police officers were wounded when a roadside bomb struck a police patrol.
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